IMPORTANT-Net: Integrated MRI multi-parametric increment fusion generator with attention network for synthesizing absent data

Tianyu Zhang, Tao Tan, Luyi Han, Xin Wang, Yuan Gao, Jarek van Dijk, Antonio Portaluri, Abel Gonzalez-Huete, Anna D'Angelo, Chunyao Lu, Jonas Teuwen, Regina Beets-Tan, Yue Sun, Ritse Mann

Abstract: Highlights•Multi-parameter fusion module realizes the interaction between different parameters.•The attention module optimizes the contribution of the fused parameters.•Hierarchical increment leads to both global and local analysis and fusion.•Synthesized images can improve the performance of AI models in downstream tasks.